October is a big month for birthdays in this household. It's probably my second favorite month of the year because of all the birthdays. For when there's birthdays, there's an opportunity to bake!
First up in October is my older sister's birthday. Crazy thing, she turned 29 again this year. 29 and holding, as she would put it. I feel so guilty, I didn't make her a special cake. She came to visit the week before her birthday when I had all the wedding cupcakes, so I just made sure she had lots of those. Sorry, sister. Next year.
But I did write about my brother's 16th birthday cheesecake. He's next in line.
And now for the grand finale...my good friend, Laura, my twin niece and nephew, and my mother, all share an October 30th birthday. Needless to say, I had a very busy baking weekend.
For Laura's special day, I went with the theme of her cocktail party...Fall. I had seen a picture online with this idea and tried to do something similar.
I used my pumpkin cake recipe with cinnamon cream cheese frosting and fondant for the decorations.
Since we don't have changing tree colors with seasons in Texas, I turn to fondant.
And now for the twins' cake. The theme of their party was Fiesta!
I made pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting and fondant (obviously) for decorations.
As far as the decor on the cake goes, I just started playing with fondant and cutouts and came up with these. I started with white fondant and picked bold colors to work with.
The banner idea came from here. I now want every cake I make to have a banner. Just sayin.
At the party with the pinanata! If you asked the twins what the birthday donkey says, they would say "Heeee-haaaaww!"
I also made a dozen pumpkin cupcakes in yellow and pink so the kids could have a personal cake.
Again, my mom was lumped in with the masses. But for the record, I asked her if she wanted her own cake and she said she'd just have a slice of the twins. I tried. At least sister and mom get their picture on the blog. Happy Birthday :)
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